Rick Rogers has been chosen as RDC’s new Executive Director. He will officially join the RDC staff in October.

Rogers currently serves as Forest Resource Program Manager at the Alaska Division of Forestry in the Department of Natural Resources. He is responsible for timber sales, forest practices, and cooperative forestry programs.

Previously, he served 12 years as Vice President Lands, Resources, and Tourism at Chugach Alaska Corporation, where he was responsible for the management and appropriate development of lands and natural resources. At Chugach, he had oversight of timber sales, oil and gas leasing, material sales, mineral exploration, and land leasing.

From 1992 to 1997, Rogers was the Senior Forester at the University of Alaska Land Management Office. He also worked as a development specialist for the Alaska Energy Authority, and a tribal forester for the Metlakatla Indian Community.

Upon earning his Bachelor of Science degree in forestry from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Rogers was drawn west working in Idaho and Utah before settling in Alaska in 1981. He cut his teeth in arguably the most remote logging camp in Alaska, preparing timber sales and overseeing harvest operations at Icy Bay on Alaska’s gulf coast.

Rogers is a former President of the RDC Board of Directors and past director of both the Alaska Forest Association and Alaska Mineral and Energy Resource Education Fund.

Having witnessed firsthand the erosion of what was once a very robust timber industry in Alaska, Rogers feels strongly that Alaskans must be vigilant in promoting sound public policies affecting resource industries.

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